Criticism & Theory

Presents a translation of the eighteenth-century Japanese drama.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Regional & CulturalAsian ...

Translations of short stories, poems, film scripts, and a full-length play offer a survey of the Japanese literary scene since the end of the Second World W...

Ama (diver) -- Atsumori -- Aya No Tsuzumi (damask Drum) -- Chikubu-shima -- Eguchi -- Funa Benkei (benkei Aboard Ship) -- Hagoromo (feather Mantle) -- Hanjo...

Celebrated And Maligned With Equal Vigor, The Bloomsbury Group Is The Best-documented Artistic Coterie In Twentieth-century Literature. The Novelists Virgin...

Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published,...

The major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions.Here are the major statements...

Featuring seven new, never-before-published poems in addition to Chinua Achebe's award-winning earlier work, Collected Poems makes available again after mor...

Everyone’s favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is just trying to find the right fit, whether it’s in the adorable blouse that looks charming on the mann...

No Art Has Been Denounced As Often As Poetry. It's Even Bemoaned By Poets: I, Too, Dislike It, Wrote Marianne Moore. Many More People Agree They Hate Poetry...

The renowned animal lover shares the heartwarming stories of the various animals that inhabit the Black Beauty Ranch, animals that have been saved from deat...

This anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 52 stories from a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by t...

'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memorie...

A Whopping Big Celebration Of The Work Of The Late, Great Nora Efren, America's Funniest-- And Most Acute-- Writer, Famous For Her Brilliant Takes On Life A...

Product Description “Feminism, history, literature, politics—this tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight.” â...

Sunrise On The Pier -- Morning Coffee -- Pumpkin Season -- Shaping Heartsongs -- Awakening After A Close Call -- Wishes -- Mosaic Of Gifts -- Embracing Each...

Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks features sparkling interviews with one of America's most valued poets. Throughout this book, which spans three decades,...

Firebrand Ny Times Columnist And Bestselling Author Lindy West Unpacks The Beloved Rom-coms And Cult Classics We Love In Order To Dissect The Culture We've ...

In this uplifting anthology, some of Blue Mountain Arts best writers share their inspiring words and thoughts. Readers are encouraged to take control of th...

The Harry Potter Books Were Just The Beginning of the Story... During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary peopl...

alice Munro, Who Received The National Book Critics Circle Award For Her Latest Collection Of Stories, the Love Of A Good Woman, Is Widely Acknowledged As...

This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.Categories: P...

The Autobiography The Food Network Would Write If It Could Write One--a Candid, Behind-the-scenes Look At How One Network Launched One Of The Biggest Cultur...

Originally published in 1973, the groundbreaking, uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her desire to fly free caused a national sensation. It fueled fanta...

Twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein’s film theory and in particular his analysis of ...

"What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?"Written...

The Friendly Dickens Helps You Turn The Pages Of A Masterpiece Like David Copperfield Or An Obscure Novel Like Nicholas Nickleby As Eagerly As You Switch Ch...

"[Julian Barnes] reinvents the wheel; I'm always fascinated to see what shape it's going to be next."—Jay McInerney With the same brilliant style and idio...

The Flowers Of Evil, Which T. S. Eliot Called The Greatest Example Of Modern Poetry In Any Language, Shocked The Literary World Of Nineteenth Century France...

The Author's Most Political Novel Since The Cider House Rules And A Prayer For Owen Meany, This Novel Is An Intimate And Unforgettable Portrait Of The Solit...

Little Red Riding Hood (1697) / Charles Perrault -- Little Red Riding Hood (1729) / Robert Samber -- The Story Of Little Red Riding Hood (1796) / Anonymous ...

This Is The First Systematic Critique Of Edward Said's Influential Work Orientalism, A Book That For Almost Three Decades Has Received Wide Acclaim In Both ...

Contains A Reference To Authors And Illustrators Of Children's Literature And Includes Biographical Sketches, Photos, And Lists Of Resources That Profile Fo...

Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz A...

Hamish Macbeth, the laid-back constable of Lochdubh, Scotland, has a new Land Rover to drive and a Highland summer to savor, but as fast as rain rolls in fr...

The third in the Now Read This series, Pearl & Cords's guide briefly describes and organizes approximately 500 of the most popular and current contempor...

JOYCE'S MOTTO has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, ...

A cornucopia of comment from Canada’s most opinionated man — a man seen, read, and listened to by millions of Canadians each week.Canada’s most distin...

This concise, illustrated dictionary of Shakespeariana, compiled by one of the best-known authorities on his works, contains alphabetically arranged entries...

The Turning Aside Is About Stepping Out Of Our Routines--like Moses Turning From Tending Sheep, Like A Certain Man Selling His Everything To Buy A Field--to...

The Stars Shine Down is Sidney Sheldons twelfth and most passionate novel, set against the glamorous world of international business and featuring a comple...

Anita Shreve.Categories: Literature & Fiction Genre Fiction Family LifeGeneral

This Collection Of Original Essays By Many Of Today's Preeminent Interpreters Of Continental Philosophy Explores The Question Of Whether Western Thought And...

In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere... As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wut...

One Of The Best Books Of The Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, The Christian Science Monitor Willa Drake Has Had Three Opportunities To Start Her Li...

The greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language—now in a handsome edition featuring exquisite color illustr...

George Steiner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Reference Words, Language & GrammarLinguistics

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her...

Patrice Pavis is one of France's most brilliant academics and a leading expert internationally in the theory of theatre. Dictionary of the Theatre is an En...